The way cultural news and entertainment reporting took such a severe beating during the "Great Downsize'' within the newspaper industry of this past historic recession, you might be wondering whatever became of all those wonderful classical music writers?

Unlike my early days in New York, I no longer roam the boroughs attending opening after opening, party after party, all night conversations in some random artist loft/apartment/space (the after after party). It sounds great because it was great. It was also more distracting than inspiring.